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Subject: RE: [emergency-msg] RE: [emergency-if] EDXL-AT & Situational Awareness
Re: "As I see it, the practitioners/SMEs do know their area best - I do not believe that will change - we should recognize this and work with the practitioners to leverage their domain expertise." I am in complete agreement. We can't do what we do without the SMEs. O.K. maybe we could, but it wouldn't be any good and it would never be accepted by the stakeholder community. IMHO, Patti Patti Iles Aymond, PhD Senior Scientist, Research & Development Innovative Emergency Management, Inc. Managing Risk in a Complex World 8555 United Plaza Blvd. Suite 100 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 (225) 952-8228 (phone) (225) 952-8122 (fax) -----Original Message----- From: Sukumar Dwarkanath [mailto:sdwarkanath@comcare.org] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:05 PM To: Timothy Grapes; Rex Brooks; tgrapes@evotechinc.com; emergency-msg@lists.oasis-open.org; emergency-if@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [emergency-msg] RE: [emergency-if] EDXL-AT & Situational Awareness >> EDXL-HAVE, in my opinion, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that accepting >>candidate specifications by groups of SMEs is almost always a mistake. SMEs rarely >>fully understand how broad, yet rigorous, the specification-writing process needs to be. >> We have now had to PAINFULLY deal with the consequences of being persuaded that >>the SMEs know their area best and that means they are the best group to write a >>specification for that area, instead of carefully working through a rigorous requirements-writing process. Rex: I am not sure how you characterize a candidate specification but EDXL-HAVE was submitted in the format that the EM TC requested - as a requirements specification - and not as a candidate specification. As I see it, the practitioners/SMEs do know their area best - I do not believe that will change - we should recognize this and work with the practitioners to leverage their domain expertise. Sukumar IEM CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PLEASE READ OUR NOTICE: http://www.iem.com/e_mail_confidentiality_notice.html
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